• How Circuit City’s closure is affecting the US economy (International Herald Tribune/AP)
• Nintendo to open 40,000 square-foot US$141 million R&D facility in Kyoto (IGN)
• Twitter to start charging corporate users? (Marketing Magazine UK)
• State-side video game marketing goes above US$823 million (GameDaily)
• Despite doom and gloom, Walmart sees January sales bump (Bloomberg)
• Teen-oriented retailers are weathering the economic storm better than their counterparts (AdAge)
• THQ posts revenue decline, will cut 600 jobs (Forbes/AP)
• News Corp slashes profit forecast for a second time (Bloomberg)
• How to introduce kids to anime (Wired/GeekDad)
• The Joker ski mask is as spooky as it sounds (BoingBoing)
• Tetris bricks fit not-so-perfectly through this alleyway (Flickr via Gizmodo)
• Time Warner reports US$16 billion loss in Q4 (MarketWatch)
• Borders drops more jobs (Business Week)
• Disney Interactive Studios sees US$45 million loss (GamesIndustry.biz)
• Can the latest Lego video game stand on its own without a license behind it? (Kotaku)
• Hasbro and Universal turn to Candy Land for the next toy-turned-movie treatment (Variety)
• Woolworths lives! Online, that is (BBC News)
• China posts healthy retail sales over Lunar New Year (International Herald Tribune/AP)
• CPSC defers lead testing mandate for toy manufacturers and retailers for another year (L.A. Times)
• Hands-free drawing – make Etch-A-Sketch-esque art using just a microphone and your voice (Neatorama)
• Disney-ABC Television slashes hundreds of jobs (L.A. Times)
• At last, a retail success story! Amazon sees Q4 profit and sales spike (Wall Street Journal)
• Tesco feels the pricing pressures of consumers (Reuters)
• Jakks Pacific recalls thousands of possibly explosive Spa Factory Aromatherapy kits (PR Newswire)
• Kung Fu Panda co-director to helm live-action He-Man film (Variety)
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